Great Sorrow Quotes

24 Great Sorrow quotes by 20 unique authors

A great sorrow, like a mariner's quadrant, brings the sun at noon down to the horizon, and we learn where we are on the sea… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
People live for love. They kill for love. They die for love. They have songs, poems, novels, sculptures, paintings, myths, legends. It's one of the… — Helen Fisher
There is no dealing with great sorrow as if it were under the control of our wills. It is a terrible phenomenon, whose laws we… — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at… — Zora Neale Hurston
This last month I have felt the burden of a city. Its great sorrow has pressed in on my soul. Its vice and sin have… — Oswald J. Smith
I wanted to pray for an hour, but I keep thinking and thinking, and always sick thoughts, and my head aches - what is the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Great sorrow makes sacred the sufferer. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Now and then one sees a face which has kept its smile pure and undefiled. It is a woman's face usually; often a face which… — Helen Hunt
A good Soul hath neither too great joy, nor too great sorrow: for it rejoiceth in goodness; and it sorroweth in wickedness. By the means… — Pythagoras
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known… — George Eliot
Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and… — Leo Tolstoy
I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at… — Zora Neale Hurston
Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared… — Rudyard Kipling
I..." He struggled to answer. "When everything was quiet, I went up to the corridor and the curtain in the livingroom was open just a… — Markus Zusak
Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Great love, you believe, carries the seeds of great sorrow. — Anne Fortier
Great love, you believe, carries the seeds of great sorrow. Well, perhaps you are right. Perhaps the wise spurn one to remain safe from the… — Anne Fortier
Max lifted his head, with great sorrow and great astonishment. 'There were stars,' He said. 'They burned my eyes.’ ...from a Himmel street window, he… — Markus Zusak
But that isn't right. The King of Beasts shouldn't be a coward,'" said the Scarecrow. 'I know it,' returned the Lion, wiping a tear from… — L. Frank Baum
A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don’t get to choose our own hearts. We can’t make ourselves want… — Donna Tartt
Character - Some day, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle… — Phillips Brooks
The consequences of ignoring the Lord and His prophets are certain and often accompanied by great sorrow and regret. — Joseph B. Wirthlin
I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as great sorrow. — Fanny Burney

Who Wrote These Great Sorrow Quotes

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